ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “When You Finish Saving The World” & “Fresh”
It’s the second consecutive Virtual Sundance, with safety, convenience and isolation in place of weather, shuttle buses and community. Over the next several days, we’ll be bringing you reviews of several Su...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Moonrise Kingdom”
MOONRISE KINGDOM: Worth A Ticket – The Kingdom is Wes Anderson’s Wes Anderson seemed to find the perfect vehicle for his particular form of brilliance with 2009’s stop-motion animated Fa...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Belfast,” “Benediction” & “Jagged”
BELFAST (Focus/Universal – Nov. 12): Kenneth Branagh’s semiautobiographical film walks a path laid by many great works by master filmmakers, including Fellini’s Amarcord, John Boorman’s Hope and...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL: Worth A Ticket – Routine But Spectacular With MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL, Brad Bird makes the very unusual transition from animation auteur...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins”
To say BATMAN BEGINS successfully rebooted the Warners franchise is accurate, but incomplete. Christopher Nolan’s film, from the script he wrote with David S. Goyer, is a complete rethinking of the very concept o...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Black and White”
BLACK AND WHITE – no current US distributor or release date – Not Even For Free BLACK AND WHITE was reportedly drawn from events in its writer/director Mike Bender’s own life, which makes it remarkable,...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Lucky One”
THE LUCKY ONE: Watch It At Home – Not If The One Is In The Audience Zac Efron has been working out, and he wants you to know it. Efron’s new biceps and abs are on frequent display in THE LUC...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark”
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK – Not Even For Free: No, Really–Don’t Be Afraid FilmDistrict has gone out of its way to identify co-writer/co-producer Guillermo del Toro with DON’...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”
THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
Whatever one can say about Chris Columbus–and there’ll be plenty of less than glowing words about him below–he’s the man who cast Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as the leads in 200...